Environmental Disability Studies

This book brings together insights from critical disability studies, environmental sociology, and related fields to argue for a reimagining of disability grounded in material relationships between humans, the environment, and nonhuman actors. Through a proposed Environmental Disability Studies, it offers an innovative framework for understanding disability as a socionatural condition shaped by ecological, political, and technological forces—ultimately calling for embracing disabled knowledge for more just futures. Responding to urgent calls for postdisciplinary tools that advance social and environmental justice, this collection situates embodiment as an epistemic resource and interrogates how materiality, knowledge production, and power co-constitute one another. It moves beyond anthropocentric models that cast disabled bodyminds as deviant, instead foregrounding the entanglements of bodies, environments, infrastructures, and toxicities. Through this lens, contributions to the collection explore justice, vulnerability, interdependence, and crip imaginaries as resources for rethinking the socionatural world. A thought-provoking contribution to contemporary debates on disability, environment, and justice, this book offers a conceptual foothold for scholars and students in disability studies, environmental sociology, science and technology studies, feminist inquiry, and related fields seeking new ways to understand embodiment, materiality, and power.